{"id":5057,"date":"2012-11-23T14:28:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T20:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=5057"},"modified":"2022-11-22T11:24:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:24:58","slug":"weekly-recap-5-ways-to-prepare-it-to-drive-productivity-byod-risks-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/weekly-recap-5-ways-to-prepare-it-to-drive-productivity-byod-risks-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly recap: 5 ways to prepare IT to drive productivity, BYOD risks, and more&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-725\" title=\"Education\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Education.jpg\" alt=\"Education\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" \/>Every week, I share the most interesting and useful tech articles that I\u2019ve found over the past week. This week\u2019s top articles focus on IT productivity, things you need to know about javascript, and more. I hope you find them useful:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">10 things you need to know about Javascript<\/span><br \/>\nIf you do any type of web development, you\u2019ll likely need to understand Javascript.  This article lists some of the most important aspects of Javascript that any developer must understand.<a name=\"20121120\"><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20121123_5WaysToDriveITProductivity_BYOD']);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/smb\/mobile\/6-risks-your-byod-policy-must-address\/240142320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">Risks your BYOD policy must address<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBYOD isn\u2019t going anywhere.  Rather than fight it, your company must adapt to this new reality.  This article takes a look at BYOD from a legal perspective, and highlights a few little-known risks of BYOD.  Here\u2019s another article the offers a simple way to safely embrace BYOD: <span style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">The key to BYOD: Ignore the device?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20121123_5WaysToDriveITProductivity_Productivity']);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/peterhigh\/2012\/11\/19\/cebs-five-ways-to-prepare-it-to-drive-productivity\/?ss=cio-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">5 ways to prepare IT to drive productivity<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nAs technology plays a larger role in business, the IT department must drive more innovation and productivity.  This article lists some great ways the IT department can prepare for this changing work environment.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20121123_5WaysToDriveITProductivity_SpeedDevelopment']);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/blog\/programming-and-development\/speed-up-development-by-slowing-down\/6014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">Speed up development by slowing down<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nIf you find yourself making more development mistakes, maybe you\u2019re trying to do too much.  Rather than tackling many projects at the same time, try slowing down and focusing on a single task.  You may be surprised to find that this actually improves your productivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, I share the most interesting and useful tech articles that I\u2019ve found over the past week. This week\u2019s top articles focus on IT productivity, things you need to know about javascript, and more. I hope you find them useful: 10 things you need to know about Javascript If you do any type of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/weekly-recap-5-ways-to-prepare-it-to-drive-productivity-byod-risks-and-more\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekly recap: 5 ways to prepare IT to drive productivity, BYOD risks, and more&#8230;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Weekly recap: 5 ways to prepare IT to drive productivity, BYOD risks, and more... - mrc&#039;s Cup of Joe Blog","description":"Every week, I share the most interesting and useful tech articles that I\u2019ve found over the past week. This week\u2019s top articles focus on IT productivity, things"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[78,15],"class_list":["post-5057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-byod","tag-web-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5057"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14016,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions\/14016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}